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The funny part is I've lost my taste for champagne, and alcohol more or less in general. I find the champagnes, and wines in general, too acidic, and lacking richness and complexity. Every once in awhile I find something reasonably priced, but that's very rare. I've always liked Dom...

I'm with Mercutio. Still, my favorite mouses are the Razer mouses. www.razerzone.com GS

What's the speed of the computer you are running on? McAfee made the P2 400mhz unusable. I'm running Penicillin, from TrendMicro on my main machine, and, even though it's expensive, and minorly annoying, it really works. NOD32 seems fine. GS

I should elaborate. This time of year, @ the Shadowbrook, a guy named Chase came in. He had a party of 6, and, thanks to my wine expertise, he spent 6700 dollars. He rounded it off to something like an even 8 grand. While the tip is still probably the best ever, at the Brook, the jealousy...

Well, it's Thanksgiving, and , things are going well but, no company. More later. Tonight, I was in the mood to be Santa, and, I took a ride down to the local store. I've pretty much gone from 2400 a month, to maybe 5000 a month, starting tomorrow, for the rest of the year. I was in the mood...

Mercutio: The 4200 rpm ATA-6 drives aren't all that slow, or that shabby, compared to what else is out there. This generation of drives really seems to have doubled, and then some, sustained data transfer. The old drives in the CF 37 and Lombard are maybe 10 mb a sec, vs. average 22-23...

Catch 22. CF-37 is fast enough to do DVD's, but only if the files are copied to the hard drive. It only supports USB1, so, can't play from the DVD player, only copy from it. Ripping to the hard drive might take forever, don't know. With head phones, it's rather cool, for such an old laptop...

Anyone have any favorite free picture hosting websites? Thanks GS

It's 2:20 am, and I'm watching Winning! It's a movie about a Neuman finding his new wife sleeping with Robert Wagner, basicly because he neglects her for a race car... While that's going on, my cat jumps to the top of the door, and starts walking around... Talk about an analogy... Time to...

Mercutio has a point about using a bigger drive, provided the computer can play DVD's. CF-37 I think, is too slow, 366 mhz with 192 mg of ram, but, I could be wrong. That's on the line for DVD players. Course with a 6 gig drive, you can't play from the drive, and, it doesn't have a DVD...

Mercutio has a point about using a bigger drive, provided the computer can play DVD's. CF-37 I think, is too slow, 366 mhz with 192 mg of ram, but, I could be wrong. That's on the line for DVD players. Course with a 6 gig drive, you can't play from the drive, and, it doesn't have a DVD...

Are ATA-6 100 gig drives compatible with older, UltraDMA laptops? I thought the cutoff is about ATA-5 for Macs, don't know about 2000/XP. GS

Ok: this looks like the best upgrade for older laptops to me: It's a Samsung, 40 gig, 5400 rpm, 5 year warranty 8mb cache, appears to be backwards compatible for much older laptops, access time is very low 12 ms, and, it's cheap, at 75.00 comments? Thoughts? GS...

I guess what they should say with the comments about desktop speed with the Hitachi 7200 is the speeds are going to be of a fairly medium to low speed desktop... gs

Spec comparision on HD Tach 2.70, in Travelstar 4200 rpm ATA 6 40 gig vs. 7k 60 gig 7200 rpm travelstar: Access time: 4200 rpm 23.8 7200 14.7 39% Difference? Read performance: 4200 rpm 28.6 max, average 22.6 7200 rpm max 39.4 average 29.3 29% Difference? While the access times appear to...

http://www.mobilityguru.com/2004/12/13/nine_notebook_hard_drives_make_their_debuts/page7.html CT: This link is for Tony, but it's kind of long. Would you please fix it? Thanks The question becomes: Is it worth 150-300 dollars to upgrade your drive, when only the 300 dollar drive gives a 5...

Geneflect if you like :wink: I saw a Thinkpad at work, and, it is kind of cool, but hell of slow. However, I do trust you guys, and, I've not looked up Thinkpads lately... gs

Thinkpads are also usually expensive, and, the 'eraser' sucks... gs

Merc: Panasonic is on the cutting edge of lite. http://www.shopzilla.com/9L--Panasonic_T2_1.2_GHz_Pentium_M_753_Laptop_-_cat_id--462__prod_id--324605601#details The one I picked is heavy. On the other hand, the CF-37 is about 3.9 pounds, and, they have super light ones, as well. Still, they...

Well, the other one mentioned was HP... Does Samsung make laptops :?: :wink: Anybody know what the DVD playback lawsuit against Apple was about? gs

What's wrong with a Dell entry level, for 399? http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/featured_basnb?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

I just shop for a long time, prior, to picking one up. Still waiting for the 7200 rpm drives to drop in price. Maybe after Christmas. Still, I bought this thing for doing the bar, word processing, and I'm in no hurry to upgrade the drive. I still have my 2000 running 366 mhz, and it's just a...

http://www.superwarehouse.com/Panasonic_Toughbook_51/CF-51LCMDDBM/p/623821 http://www.superwarehouse.com/Panasonic_Laptops_by_Processor/b/196/c/2051 Long Panisonic URL "Downplay the processor speed. Speed is no longer the be-all of personal computers. For years, processors have delivered all...

Well, I think I posted the kid that took me an hour to remove the spyware, after he tried to download music on my computer at school. I gave him the installs for Adaware, etc. anti-virus stuff, and it took him HOURS just to check, and remove, the crap he'd put on his home computer. Surprise...

Sounds to me like a bad card. Still, try getting on the Matrox Forums and discussing it. GREAT source for information on their cards. http://forum.matrox.com/mga/index.php gs

Anything might work in SF, and, therefore, the world... gs

Virus, etc.? I've noticed on my machine, lately, that after folding@home is running, if I click something, the screen goes blank, then comes up again, and everything is fine. Without Fucking@home(excuse me, sorry :cry: :lol: :mrgrn: :wink:) Everything works fine...If all else fails...

GOD DAMN: THESE REMIND ME OF GAS PRICES LATELY. PLEASE F...G EXPLAIN WHY IT WENT FROM 330 TO 257, IN NO TIME AROUND HERE... CAN WE SAY: MONOPOLY, WITH NO FEDERAL INVOLVEMENT? GS

DARN!, That explains it. It's the part time 1.4 ghz, PM, 1.4 ghz that's really doing the ass kicking. Damn ape, you guys are sooo smart... :wink: s

You DO have to admit, the G3 333mhz processor out preforms xeons, and athlons, in folding at home, just look at my figures. :twistd: gs

Please :excl: I'm running folding at home on a Mac G3 333 laptop. The dual is too noisy to run all the time9 :mrgrn: :mrgrn: :mrgrn: since I haven't replaced the noisy assfans, Sunons, with the quiet Vantecs(that are sitting on my desk :diablo: I can't figure out why you would target...

The Dell XPS 400 came with a pos, but silent, 200 Watt power supply. That quickly quelled all my upgrade plans for it. I've had a compaq donated to me, and, it came with a stoneage hard drive, and never ran reliably. Time to hit the sack. gs

It's a Maxtor, so prayer is a wonderful suggestion :wink: Check the length of warranty on the drive. Since I have the black thumb of ATA, I'm certainly NOT the person to comment... :mrgrn: :wink: GS

Typo: Should have been Nvidia 3, not 4. Even though it was supposed to be XP64 compatible, I had problems, and, I think, the ATI 700XL driver wasn't very good, either. I wonder if XP has 64 bit drivers for my HP 4000N? GS

Or you could have issues with shitty XP 64 drivers that suck. :wink: Nvidia 4 chipset, at least. GS

Where did you go? GS

If you look at the reviews, the Seasonics are in a league of their own as far as consistent energy supply. They are also very quiet, and very expensive, if not bought on fire sale. Somewhere around here, I did a real indepth research on these things, and found out the others aren't even close. GS

Any harm in shuting off a monitor, while the computer is still running? GS

Once a whore, always a whore... :evil: :wink: :mrgrn: Guess Samsung needs to advertize more, and maybe they will get a higher rating. No, I"M NOT JADED, OR ANYTHING.... :lol: GS

Well, I can say on CRT's that the matrox P550, and P650 are simply stunning. Running at Billions of colors, even on three screens, the P650 is simply incredible. What it doesn't do well is High definition video becomes a slide show. Games, at least my overall Quake 3, play favorably, but, to...

That's what I did with the computer in the other room. Seasonic 400W on firesale at Frys, 59 dollars, and the case was 120, also on sale due to some new verision coming out, or maybe it was the 160, I don't always remember the stuff after I buy it. :cry: Gigabyte motherboard, 3000+, but, as...

More info... gs

Hi Signed up for yahoo. Still Waiting for the gmail account... gs

BUILD A SILENT MACHINE FOR FOLDING Hi Give me some specs for a silent machine for folding @ home max preformance. has to work 24/7, but let us sleep in the same room. Then give a medium cost, and low end cost for the same. Thanks gS

I'm unconvinced. I know the perverts that live in the Palo Alto area, and, for all you know, they are working on some sort of new porn with my computer cycles. I remember some famous actress that was flunked from a Stanford acting class, because she took off to make a movie with Robert...

My cat decided to sit on my mouse pad, and play with me. This is an unusual occurence, and rates WAY above installing Folding@Home again. Stanford boys are rich, I'm not sure why they can't pay their own damn electricity bill.... Besides, bastards wouldn't let me into their damn law school...

The 400 is VERY quiet. Near Silent. The 600 is a bit noiser, but not much. Don't know about the other two. gs CT: Running the console installer doesn't give a step to change directories.

OK: The Athlon is on all the time, since my SO never turns it off, and, it's silent. Despite all my efforts, the Dual Xeon makes enough noise to keep me from sleeping(pretty sure it's the fan on the SCA box: suggestions on making this silent would be great, changing fans, recommended fan, and...

Kind of curious: On the Athlon 3000+ 5.03 F@H runs the processor at 100%, all the time according to task manager. On the 2.8 dual machine, it takes one, complete, virtual processor, for about 25% of the machine. Niether seems to be affected much, if at all, by having it run int the...